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Escape from London
This is the second story released as part of The Undead Presents — a project publishing fan-written fiction set in the world of RR Haywood’s The Undead.
Written by Andrew Brehony, Escape From London is a fast, furious, and fun survival horror packed with Irish wit and teenage chaos.
What begins as a routine school trip quickly spirals into madness when the global outbreak erupts on Day One. Trapped in the heart of the city, the students and teachers of Woods College must fight to survive.
Fear. Betrayal. The horrors of the infected. Every step could be their last as London collapses into chaos.
Tears will be shed. Hurleys will be swung with a vengeance. Blood will be spilled.
Can they Escape From London?
Written by Andrew Brehony, Escape From London is a fast, furious, and fun survival horror packed with Irish wit and teenage chaos.
What begins as a routine school trip quickly spirals into madness when the global outbreak erupts on Day One. Trapped in the heart of the city, the students and teachers of Woods College must fight to survive.
Fear. Betrayal. The horrors of the infected. Every step could be their last as London collapses into chaos.
Tears will be shed. Hurleys will be swung with a vengeance. Blood will be spilled.
Can they Escape From London?
208 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 17, 2025
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September 19, 2025
I enjoyed reading it but it all seemed a little too frantic for me. The action came too solid too fast, perhaps a few flashbacks to people’s previous lives could have broken up the action a bit? Also we seemed to lose the Undead link halfway through and it just became a book about the group and nothing else? If the characters had been fleshed out earlier on and perhaps the action had been broken up with maybe another chain of events I would have been quite happy giving this a four/five star rating. An enjoyable book and I would happily read another by the author
September 22, 2025
This is a great start
Andrew really captured the essence of The Undead. Great characters. Plenty of action and some uncomfortable drama. Write more. We can't wait to find out more about Ivy.
Andrew really captured the essence of The Undead. Great characters. Plenty of action and some uncomfortable drama. Write more. We can't wait to find out more about Ivy.
September 24, 2025
Great addition to the undead series
I have read all of the undead series and enjoyed the addition of both Cornwall and Escape from London. Looking forward to reading what happens to the Irish group and will they ever get to meet up with Howie.
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I have read all of the undead series and enjoyed the addition of both Cornwall and Escape from London. Looking forward to reading what happens to the Irish group and will they ever get to meet up with Howie.
t
January 31, 2026
So good
Very good first book from Andrew Brehony, it fits in perfectly with mr Haywoods world. It contains everything that you'd expect, interesting characters, action, humour. Looking forward to the next book.
Very good first book from Andrew Brehony, it fits in perfectly with mr Haywoods world. It contains everything that you'd expect, interesting characters, action, humour. Looking forward to the next book.
September 18, 2025
Awesome addition to the undead world
Fast paced and funny. In perfect harmony with the undead series. I just want more… I’m looking forward to what Andrew Brehony writes next.
Fast paced and funny. In perfect harmony with the undead series. I just want more… I’m looking forward to what Andrew Brehony writes next.
September 21, 2025
A great addition to the Undead world
I really enjoyed this book. Gave me my zombie fix for the day! A really good first book. Thank you Andrew Brehony
I really enjoyed this book. Gave me my zombie fix for the day! A really good first book. Thank you Andrew Brehony
September 30, 2025
This is the 2nd book in the undead presents series I’ve read and this is another one that seems like it belongs and is part of RR Haywoods world.
Brilliant - hope there’s a continuation
Brilliant - hope there’s a continuation
October 23, 2025
I enjoyed it, but felt it was a bit too rushed. still a good read though. Just needed a few tweaks , 1 or 2 less scenes and maybe a bit of character background. but well done Andrew,
October 31, 2025
For your first book it was great! You have definitely captured the style of Mr Haywood. I enjoyed the read!
December 8, 2025
Another great addition to the undead universe, really enjoyed reading this tale and seeing how things change especially people
January 21, 2026
Pretty good
Fast moving at the expense of character development, still an engaging and easy to follow book, fairly short - finished in 3 days
Fast moving at the expense of character development, still an engaging and easy to follow book, fairly short - finished in 3 days
April 6, 2026
"Escape from London" by Andrew Brehony is definitely a quick read but is also definitely a rough read.
I read "Nobility" by Graham Toseland last year and I really enjoyed it, and I went into this book with high hopes but also tempered notes, as I believe this book is a debut novel and, if so, it definitely shows.
One of the biggest issues I have with this story is the characters: most of them just suck and are forgettable. There's a massive issue with a lot of the main cast, which is that there's nothing to get engaged with them about or to like about them either. I was so disengaged with the characters that I can't even remember any of their names. They're all characters who've seemingly done pretty shitty things and a good chunk of them are just there so there's a number to add to the story's body count or to add bland drama into the mix. One of the most uncomfortable parts is built around a girl who apparently broke up with one of the boys and, in anger, sent a video of her topless to them; the video was then sent to someone else and from there it spread around the school. It's pretty much just used as a way to kill the girl because when she finds out who sent the video out she goes insane and stabs them with a knife before taking a bullet to the dome from one of the lady teachers who just happened to be in the army for a few years. Something which is only stated AFTER she shoots the girl dead. As for where she got that gun? Well, a blonde-haired lady who seems to be a Mission Impossible agent of some kind just casually dropped the gun on a balcony and a former-army girl picked it up and hid it.
This stuff could work, but I don't think it's being given the time to breath for it to work. It's just being used to set up deaths and not much else, which could be disappointing if these characters were 1) actually likeable and 2) actually engaging and not mainly just dicks.
A small side note, by the way, is that the pupils and teachers are apparently meant to be Irish, but the closest any of the characters got to Irish was saying the word "shite". The rest of the time, every character doesn't feel Irish; they just feel like they're an American stereotype you'd see in an 80s blockbuster movie.
Another issue with this story is its management of time. I want you to think how long two pages in this nearly 200-page book would amount to in-universe time. Maybe a couple minutes, give or take? Well, if you think that, then you'd be wrong because apparently two pages in this book amounted to thirty minutes! Thirty minutes for 5 people to climb over to another apartment balcony while zombies are busily hammering down the door. I don't tend to verbally react to stuff in books but when I read that half an hour had passed, I gave a verbal "What?" not once, but twice, because we'd apparently gotten to 5am by this point and I was over here thinking that we'd not even made it past 2am yet. The passage of time isn't well communicated in this book and when it is communicated, it's confusing.
I do give Andrew Brehony credit because he has written a novel and he's written a story that he wanted to tell in a series I'm very certain he enjoys. I do also give him some slack because it is a debut novel, but I do think that this story and these characters should've been given a good chunk more thought and some more likeable qualities before being put on the printing press, because as the story stands it is readable and it is a quick read, but it's also one where you can't read too deeply without seeing the many cracks bubbling through it.
At the time of writing this review (4th of April, 2026), Andrew has released two sequel stories, which I haven't read, and as it stands, I don't intend to either. But I hope that the sequel improves on the issues that this book has, and Andrew Brehony continues to write and to improve his skills in writing, something I'm sure he is capable of doing.
Overall I give "Escape from London" two stars because it is a debut novel and it is the first published work from Brehony. It deserves some slack in my eyes and I'm willing to give it that. I don't recommend this book, though, unless you're an Undead completionist or if you can read a book without thinking about it too much or getting too deep into it.
I read "Nobility" by Graham Toseland last year and I really enjoyed it, and I went into this book with high hopes but also tempered notes, as I believe this book is a debut novel and, if so, it definitely shows.
One of the biggest issues I have with this story is the characters: most of them just suck and are forgettable. There's a massive issue with a lot of the main cast, which is that there's nothing to get engaged with them about or to like about them either. I was so disengaged with the characters that I can't even remember any of their names. They're all characters who've seemingly done pretty shitty things and a good chunk of them are just there so there's a number to add to the story's body count or to add bland drama into the mix. One of the most uncomfortable parts is built around a girl who apparently broke up with one of the boys and, in anger, sent a video of her topless to them; the video was then sent to someone else and from there it spread around the school. It's pretty much just used as a way to kill the girl because when she finds out who sent the video out she goes insane and stabs them with a knife before taking a bullet to the dome from one of the lady teachers who just happened to be in the army for a few years. Something which is only stated AFTER she shoots the girl dead. As for where she got that gun? Well, a blonde-haired lady who seems to be a Mission Impossible agent of some kind just casually dropped the gun on a balcony and a former-army girl picked it up and hid it.
This stuff could work, but I don't think it's being given the time to breath for it to work. It's just being used to set up deaths and not much else, which could be disappointing if these characters were 1) actually likeable and 2) actually engaging and not mainly just dicks.
A small side note, by the way, is that the pupils and teachers are apparently meant to be Irish, but the closest any of the characters got to Irish was saying the word "shite". The rest of the time, every character doesn't feel Irish; they just feel like they're an American stereotype you'd see in an 80s blockbuster movie.
Another issue with this story is its management of time. I want you to think how long two pages in this nearly 200-page book would amount to in-universe time. Maybe a couple minutes, give or take? Well, if you think that, then you'd be wrong because apparently two pages in this book amounted to thirty minutes! Thirty minutes for 5 people to climb over to another apartment balcony while zombies are busily hammering down the door. I don't tend to verbally react to stuff in books but when I read that half an hour had passed, I gave a verbal "What?" not once, but twice, because we'd apparently gotten to 5am by this point and I was over here thinking that we'd not even made it past 2am yet. The passage of time isn't well communicated in this book and when it is communicated, it's confusing.
I do give Andrew Brehony credit because he has written a novel and he's written a story that he wanted to tell in a series I'm very certain he enjoys. I do also give him some slack because it is a debut novel, but I do think that this story and these characters should've been given a good chunk more thought and some more likeable qualities before being put on the printing press, because as the story stands it is readable and it is a quick read, but it's also one where you can't read too deeply without seeing the many cracks bubbling through it.
At the time of writing this review (4th of April, 2026), Andrew has released two sequel stories, which I haven't read, and as it stands, I don't intend to either. But I hope that the sequel improves on the issues that this book has, and Andrew Brehony continues to write and to improve his skills in writing, something I'm sure he is capable of doing.
Overall I give "Escape from London" two stars because it is a debut novel and it is the first published work from Brehony. It deserves some slack in my eyes and I'm willing to give it that. I don't recommend this book, though, unless you're an Undead completionist or if you can read a book without thinking about it too much or getting too deep into it.
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